The painted canvas
The lights went dark. I heard cheers, screams, and the tapping of my tap shoes as i walked on stage. The smell of popcorn and sweat filled the small, cold, purple room. The taste of spit ran through my mouth as i swallowed and closed my eyes. The lights went up and i found myself centre stage in the place i call home, the barn theatre.
Before I could walk on stage, i needed to prepare. Long cold days full of sweat and snacks filled the winter nights. Light would fill the theatre for hours as cars danced past and people spied to see what was happening inside. Pink and blue hues of color bounced off the windows from stage lights, the only heat in the small square theatre. From the outside, it looked like a normal building, but on the inside, the colors of the rainbow jumped and ran around playing tag with the actors. The barn is like a blank canvas. Rehearsals start first on the canvas. The actors inside grow more and more with the characters that have been assigned. This is the pencil sketch, the base.
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The time is about six-fifteen. The green room is filled with the sound of laughter and god awful trap music. Gifts sit perfectly wrapped on the long wood brown table with tags that read who they are meant for. The smell of stage makeup and outside produced a terrible taste of dirt in my mouth. Couches filled the rectangle room and blankets with pastel colors laid the way they were left from the day before. As i put my suitcase full of multicolored clothes down on the couch furthest from the door, i see a table full of small square microphones with numbers from one to twenty-five. Less than an hour till the theatre will be fill with people ages three to eighty-three waiting impatiently for the high schoolers to come on the stage sing and dancing. But until then, we wait as the clock tick tocks down the
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Listening, I could hear them, the persistent sound of chatter and laughter. The roar of ambient joy rang from the house and into the ears of everyone behind the scene. You never know what to expect when you're standing backstage; you never know what's going to happen. Thousands of thoughts and worries are bouncing around your head. What if I mess up my life? What if I miss my cue? What if I forget how to speak? It isn't until that very precise moment when the audience's voices have hushed to a whisper and directly before the curtain has opened that your mind becomes clear. You forget all about the hundreds of people that came to see your show. You forget all about the friends you have in the audience just waiting for that moment when you have to do some embarrassing stunt on stage to capture it on film. You even forget all about who you are and all your worries. In that moment, you are an actor.
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Applied Theatre Practitioners and the Dynamics of Conversion By implication, the task of dialoguing with the people or explaining the consequence of taking critical action suggests the presence of a third party beside the oppressed and oppressor. The third party in the Applied Theatre context is any of the middle-class practitioners who must have been “sold” to the cause of the oppressed. For the liberation to be complete, the conversion of the agent must be correspondingly holistic. By implication, we interpret Freire’s position to mean that the agent have to be “transformed” to an “insider” through inner conviction for him to function effectively. James Thompson (2008) departs from Freire’s position of comradeship with the oppressed by averring
A mere mention of the term theatre acts as a relief to many people. It is in this place that a m...
“The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation,” says Stella Adler. Theater is unique and intriguing because it blends literary and visual arts to tell a story. Before Theater 10, I viewed theater on the surface level: cheesy plot lines with dramatic scenarios for entertainment purposes. Throughout the course, I have learned what it means to appreciate theater, such as understanding Brechtian and Chinese theatre; however, I believe understanding theater’s ability to convey crucial historical and social messages, such as in the production of RENT, is more relevant and important for theater appreciation.
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In this paper, I will be focusing briefly on my knowledge and understanding of the concept of Applied theatre and one of its theatre form, which is Theatre in Education. The term Applied Theatre is a broad range of dramatic activity carried out by a crowd of diverse bodies and groups.
Theatre will always survive in our changing society. It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters with which we identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time.
Before I started Introduction to Theatre class, I had been only to a couple of plays in my life. Just in this semester I’ve been to about ten plays and have learned so much about the art of theatre. The information I retained from class will help out a lot in the future, but the most important part of this class was the shadowing experience of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With being able to get an inside look at this play during rehearsal and then going to see the performance was an incredible experience. By going to the rehearsal and then seeing the show, I was able to learn and understand more on how the theatre works. From there, I could understand the long process the actors and directors have to go through before the opening show happens.
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